Chapter 10. Removing Serverless

10.1. Removing OpenShift Serverless overview

If you need to remove OpenShift Serverless from your cluster, you can do so by manually removing the OpenShift Serverless Operator and other OpenShift Serverless components. Before you can remove the OpenShift Serverless Operator, you must remove Knative Serving and Knative Eventing.

After uninstalling the OpenShift Serverless, you can remove the Operator and API custom resource definitions (CRDs) that remain on the cluster.

The steps for fully removing OpenShift Serverless are detailed in the following procedures:

10.2. Uninstalling OpenShift Serverless Knative Eventing

Before you can remove the OpenShift Serverless Operator, you must remove Knative Eventing. To uninstall Knative Eventing, you must remove the KnativeEventing custom resource (CR) and delete the knative-eventing namespace.

10.2.1. Uninstalling Knative Eventing

Prerequisites

  • You have access to an OpenShift Container Platform account with cluster administrator access.
  • Install the OpenShift CLI (oc).

Procedure

  1. Delete the KnativeEventing CR:

    $ oc delete knativeeventings.operator.knative.dev knative-eventing -n knative-eventing
  2. After the command has completed and all pods have been removed from the knative-eventing namespace, delete the namespace:

    $ oc delete namespace knative-eventing

10.3. Uninstalling OpenShift Serverless Knative Serving

Before you can remove the OpenShift Serverless Operator, you must remove Knative Serving. To uninstall Knative Serving, you must remove the KnativeServing custom resource (CR) and delete the knative-serving namespace.

10.3.1. Uninstalling Knative Serving

Prerequisites

  • You have access to an OpenShift Container Platform account with cluster administrator access.
  • Install the OpenShift CLI (oc).

Procedure

  1. Delete the KnativeServing CR:

    $ oc delete knativeservings.operator.knative.dev knative-serving -n knative-serving
  2. After the command has completed and all pods have been removed from the knative-serving namespace, delete the namespace:

    $ oc delete namespace knative-serving

10.4. Removing the OpenShift Serverless Operator

After you have removed Knative Serving and Knative Eventing, you can remove the OpenShift Serverless Operator. You can do this by using the OpenShift Container Platform web console or the oc CLI.

10.4.1. Deleting Operators from a cluster using the web console

Cluster administrators can delete installed Operators from a selected namespace by using the web console.

Prerequisites

  • Access to an OpenShift Container Platform cluster web console using an account with cluster-admin permissions.

Procedure

  1. Navigate to the OperatorsInstalled Operators page.
  2. Scroll or enter a keyword into the Filter by name field to find the Operator that you want to remove. Then, click on it.
  3. On the right side of the Operator Details page, select Uninstall Operator from the Actions list.

    An Uninstall Operator? dialog box is displayed.

  4. Select Uninstall to remove the Operator, Operator deployments, and pods. Following this action, the Operator stops running and no longer receives updates.

    Note

    This action does not remove resources managed by the Operator, including custom resource definitions (CRDs) and custom resources (CRs). Dashboards and navigation items enabled by the web console and off-cluster resources that continue to run might need manual clean up. To remove these after uninstalling the Operator, you might need to manually delete the Operator CRDs.

10.4.2. Deleting Operators from a cluster using the CLI

Cluster administrators can delete installed Operators from a selected namespace by using the CLI.

Prerequisites

  • Access to an OpenShift Container Platform cluster using an account with cluster-admin permissions.
  • oc command installed on workstation.

Procedure

  1. Check the current version of the subscribed Operator (for example, jaeger) in the currentCSV field:

    $ oc get subscription jaeger -n openshift-operators -o yaml | grep currentCSV

    Example output

      currentCSV: jaeger-operator.v1.8.2

  2. Delete the subscription (for example, jaeger):

    $ oc delete subscription jaeger -n openshift-operators

    Example output

    subscription.operators.coreos.com "jaeger" deleted

  3. Delete the CSV for the Operator in the target namespace using the currentCSV value from the previous step:

    $ oc delete clusterserviceversion jaeger-operator.v1.8.2 -n openshift-operators

    Example output

    clusterserviceversion.operators.coreos.com "jaeger-operator.v1.8.2" deleted

10.4.3. Refreshing failing subscriptions

In Operator Lifecycle Manager (OLM), if you subscribe to an Operator that references images that are not accessible on your network, you can find jobs in the openshift-marketplace namespace that are failing with the following errors:

Example output

ImagePullBackOff for
Back-off pulling image "example.com/openshift4/ose-elasticsearch-operator-bundle@sha256:6d2587129c846ec28d384540322b40b05833e7e00b25cca584e004af9a1d292e"

Example output

rpc error: code = Unknown desc = error pinging docker registry example.com: Get "https://example.com/v2/": dial tcp: lookup example.com on 10.0.0.1:53: no such host

As a result, the subscription is stuck in this failing state and the Operator is unable to install or upgrade.

You can refresh a failing subscription by deleting the subscription, cluster service version (CSV), and other related objects. After recreating the subscription, OLM then reinstalls the correct version of the Operator.

Prerequisites

  • You have a failing subscription that is unable to pull an inaccessible bundle image.
  • You have confirmed that the correct bundle image is accessible.

Procedure

  1. Get the names of the Subscription and ClusterServiceVersion objects from the namespace where the Operator is installed:

    $ oc get sub,csv -n <namespace>

    Example output

    NAME                                                       PACKAGE                  SOURCE             CHANNEL
    subscription.operators.coreos.com/elasticsearch-operator   elasticsearch-operator   redhat-operators   5.0
    
    NAME                                                                         DISPLAY                            VERSION    REPLACES   PHASE
    clusterserviceversion.operators.coreos.com/elasticsearch-operator.5.0.0-65   OpenShift Elasticsearch Operator   5.0.0-65              Succeeded

  2. Delete the subscription:

    $ oc delete subscription <subscription_name> -n <namespace>
  3. Delete the cluster service version:

    $ oc delete csv <csv_name> -n <namespace>
  4. Get the names of any failing jobs and related config maps in the openshift-marketplace namespace:

    $ oc get job,configmap -n openshift-marketplace

    Example output

    NAME                                                                        COMPLETIONS   DURATION   AGE
    job.batch/1de9443b6324e629ddf31fed0a853a121275806170e34c926d69e53a7fcbccb   1/1           26s        9m30s
    
    NAME                                                                        DATA   AGE
    configmap/1de9443b6324e629ddf31fed0a853a121275806170e34c926d69e53a7fcbccb   3      9m30s

  5. Delete the job:

    $ oc delete job <job_name> -n openshift-marketplace

    This ensures pods that try to pull the inaccessible image are not recreated.

  6. Delete the config map:

    $ oc delete configmap <configmap_name> -n openshift-marketplace
  7. Reinstall the Operator using OperatorHub in the web console.

Verification

  • Check that the Operator has been reinstalled successfully:

    $ oc get sub,csv,installplan -n <namespace>

10.5. Deleting OpenShift Serverless custom resource definitions

After uninstalling the OpenShift Serverless, the Operator and API custom resource definitions (CRDs) remain on the cluster. You can use the following procedure to remove the remaining CRDs.

Important

Removing the Operator and API CRDs also removes all resources that were defined by using them, including Knative services.

10.5.1. Removing OpenShift Serverless Operator and API CRDs

Delete the Operator and API CRDs using the following procedure.

Prerequisites

  • Install the OpenShift CLI (oc).
  • You have access to an OpenShift Container Platform account with cluster administrator access.
  • You have uninstalled Knative Serving and removed the OpenShift Serverless Operator.

Procedure

  • To delete the remaining OpenShift Serverless CRDs, enter the following command:

    $ oc get crd -oname | grep 'knative.dev' | xargs oc delete